Viktor Orbán lost the April elections. What decided about this failure? A prescription for the political strategy he built in Hungary was found – a new, better Orbán was presented to the nation. But...
The economy decided on the election defeat (https://myślpolska.info/2026/04/24/why-lost/), but it was only a foundation on which the needs and frustrations of the people were decently targeted. To accomplish the main goal of the West – to overthrow the local “autocrat” or “populist” who dared to challenge the global concept of the world. For years, since the 2014 election, the coalition has already been formed 3 times against Viktor on the rule of "buying my nobles." In erstwhile elections it consisted of completely conflicted political options, attended by all players – from green and socialists, centrists and democrats, to anti-Semitic and nationalist Jobbik. Despite these differences, the bonding force was so influential that specified contradictory elements went together to the election. But Fidesz's election strategy, showing them as puppets George Soros – won. It didn't work this time.
In 2026 the creation of a uniform anti-orban front was based on a fugitive from Fidesz. erstwhile advanced authoritative of the Orbán Administration (MSZ), 45-year-old Péter Magyar, erstwhile husband of Minister Judit Varga. He fled the ship, publishing his monthly conversations with his wife (whose career was his ticket to success). He caused a scandal (so-called pedophile) and a government crisis in which Judit Varga, his wife (she was already today), lost her position and his own catapulted him to the highest levels of politics. 1 period after this decision, he announces the creation (or wake and dust) of a organization with the alternatively Orwellian name "Food and Freedom" (Tisztelet és Szabadság; TISZA). It has proven itself in the European elections of 2024, winning the most votes, since 2006 [30%] [74].
This year's expression was different – this time there was no fight against what Orbán proposed Hungary. The audience was simply presented with a new, better Orbán – a younger, more handsome, unused 16 years of continuous regulation and 36 years of public policy. He was an insider, he knew from the inside of his enemy, he seemed to be a small different from him. And this fresh 1 did not refute the achievements of Orbán, who profoundly overran Hungarian awareness specified as Budapest's position towards Brussels, relations with Russia and the war in Ukraine, low energy prices, immigration, LGBTQ laws, etc. He only promised to improve prosperity, improve wellness care, end corruption.
His electoral slogans were limited to a change of individual (“Do not be afraid, nothing lasts forever!”). However, many decisions by Magyar himself showed that he was not part of the European political mainstream. A vote against the Mercosur Free marketplace Treaty or opposition to Ukraine's accession to the Union. Not to mention mass immigration, which is simply a very delicate point for Hungarians. besides the first statements (note: not yet decisions) about Russian oil or Hungarian number in Ukraine show that these values, to which Viktor Orbán utilized Hungarians, are very strong there.
However, the real question is whether fresh people in power in Budapest will demolish the full state and economical strategy over the Danube, as the global centres of power demand, and Brussels wants to pay for it. The erstwhile already compose scenarios for the complete dismantling of a strong state, which is called "non-liberal democracy" U has already presented a list of 27 conditions under which the fresh government will get what it assures that it cares most. That's money. The Commission can and will give money, but Hungary is to step down at all the points with which EU elites fought for Orbán's rule. Money is not given for free, 1 must obey. And in the future this listening is expected to be even bigger, due to the fact that with a immense (more than half the) budget, the Commission's mandate to refuse to pay money is besides to be passed if the beneficiary fails to comply with Brussels' demands. And this will be a real test of the fresh Hungarian governments. We'll know shortly enough.
Andrzej Szczęsniak
Think Poland, No. 19-20 (10-17.05.2016)
